SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Elle Kennedy’s Off Campus book series.

For The Pitt breakout Jalen Thomas Brooks , the medical show provided a springboard to his latest big gig, the role of John Tucker in Prime Video ‘s Off Campus .

Director Silver Tree, who helmed an episode of Season 1 of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama starring Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa and many more, also directed the first two episodes of Off Campus , which caught Brooks’ attention when he saw her name on the audition notice.

“I read the Tucker description and how he was a peacemaker, cook, the younger brother energy of the group and the glue guy,” Brooks told Deadline via phone call. “There was a lot of things that I connected to personally in my life, just how I am in my friend groups, and I grew up playing a lot of competitive basketball.…